Things That Give you Hope for the Human Race

Zipp101

For me it's generally the little things:

• Children saying please and thank you.
• Seeing people give money to charity.
• People giving directions...(as best they can).
• Respect for the elderly.
• People using bins/respecting property etc.
• Friendly chit-chat with strangers.

Witnessing random acts of kindness in general (often make my day)

Unfortunately the list would be much longer for the negative.

But I know people will think of plenty more good stuff.

biko

If you/someone drops something and someone else bothers to bend down and pick it up.

--LOS--

When people less vertically challenged reach items on the higher shelves for old folk.

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Mrmoe

Not beeping at someone when they stall at traffic lights/junction.
An actual interest in the career/education/work someone has chosen and not just doing it to pass the time.
People cleaning up dog poop after their dog.
People/drivers letting me out at a junction or crossing the road.
People putting their rubbish in the bin.
People obeying the speed limit.

tony1kenobi

John Connor.

mikom

biko wrote: »

If you/someone drops something and someone else bothers to bend down and pick it up.

Especially if she has a nice, big old behind.
I'd like to put some barbecue sauce on that butt.... and just bite, bite, bite, bite, munch, munch, munch!

OxfordComma

Politeness, in all its forms.
People offering their seats to someone else on the bus/whatever.
Teachers/doctors/nurses giving a damn about their students'/patients' welfare, or people in general doing a job because they care and because it's what they really enjoy, rather than just being in it for the money.
People giving money to charity.

I'm sure I'll be back with more soon...

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Cheeseburgers.

InkSlinger67

Don't mean to be a negative Nigel but we're doomed regardless of how well we treat each other!

*Chops down a tree to light a cigarette*

davyjose

On the rare occasion when people take a stand for their beliefs/the aid of other's etc. It's rare nowadays - most people are sheep who just do what they're told, by society regardless of their beliefs.

/he says from the interwebs

CrazyRabbit

Comments on Youtube.

Oh wait...wrong thread.

dceire

The human race, eh!

My money is on this guy...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By1JQFxfLMM

Michael B

Probably when you see someone who doesn't look like a decent human being doing something good. Like a rough looking hoodie wearing teenager helping an old person etc.

There's lots of good in this world, people just prefer to look at the negative things.

AskMyChocolate

The fact that kids still want John Wayne or Obi Wan Kenobi to win.

bonzodog2

InkSlinger67 wrote: »

Don't mean to be a negative Nigel but we're doomed regardless of how well we treat each other!

*Chops down a tree to light a cigarette*

Thanks, cheer us all up while you're at it huh ?

The Aussie

The Jeremy Kyle Show...
Now get off my stage

Seloth

Bit of a cliche but My Mother

InkSlinger67

bonzodog2 wrote: »

Thanks, cheer us all up while you're at it huh ?

*Blows smoke in face*

Erica<3

Common courtesy. Strangers being kind to strangers, service with a smile kind of thing. It just really annoys me particularly when pregnant women get on a bus and not one person gets up to give her their seat, more often than not, they just bury their noses further into their Metro-Herald, come on people, its not that ****ing interesting.

opinion guy

rarnes1 wrote: »

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Hahahhahaah. Nice try. I almost thanked that....almost.....:D

Novella

Today, I got stuck in an elevator. I was going to the car park under my apartment block and the door jammed so I couldn't get out. I was stuck in there for about two hours and while I was waiting for someone to come who could open the door, a guy, a complete stranger, sat on the floor on the other side and talked to me.

Michaelrsh

Things That Give you Hope for the Human Race

em ... bananas, among other things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yBvvGi_2A

galwayrush

The green Party...............:p
:D:D:D

:pac::pac::rolleyes::pac::pac::rolleyes::pac::pac:

Mmcd

CERN

Michaelrsh

Mmcd wrote: »

CERN

O finding out what cause everything to have mass is soooo important to humanity that we'll spend billions of tax payers money to find it.

Mmcd

Michaelrsh wrote: »

O finding out what cause everything to have mass is soooo important to humanity that we'll spend billions of tax payers money to find it.

Well the results could be of more benefit than the moon landing and there isnt too many complaining about that.

yoshytoshy

It's a contradictry thing to say in itself ,but space exploration is hope enough for me.

Michaelrsh

Mmcd wrote: »

Well the results could be of more benefit than the moon landing and there isnt too many complaining about that.

Well actually they found large quantities of helium-3 on the moon that could help fuel nuclear fusion (when its invented) in the future which could in turn help solve humanity's energy shortages. There isn't much of this particular chemical on Earth though and people would have to mine on the moon in order to effectively sustain nuclear fusion.

I fail to see, however, how finding dark matter or finding the Higg's particle would benefit humanity at all. It's only pure knowledge and comparable to stamp collecting in my opinion.

Mmcd

Michaelrsh wrote: »

Well actually they found large quantities of helium-3 on the moon that could help fuel nuclear fusion (when its invented) in the future which could in turn help solve humanity's energy shortages. There isn't much of this particular chemical on Earth though and people would have to mine on the moon in order to effectively sustain nuclear fusion.

I fail to see, however, how finding dark matter or finding the Higg's particle would benefit humanity at all. It's only pure knowledge and comparable to stamp collecting in my opinion.

You can't use something to your benefit before being knowledgable about it!

Michaelrsh

Mmcd wrote: »

You can't use something to your benefit before being knowledgable about it!

Well, I still don't see how finding the higgs particle could benefit humanity. It might be interesting to read about it in a newspaper when they find it but then apart from that the discovery can't really be useful.

beanyb

Yesterday, I was walking down Stephen's Green, just by the department of foreign affairs. This guy on a bike dropped something, and didnt realise it. Some man that saw whatever it was fall, got out of his car (he was stopped at lights) and ran after the guy on the bike to give it back to him.

It made me smile, because it would have been so much easier for him to just sit in his car and not do anything.

Wibbs

Mmcd wrote: »

Well the results could be of more benefit than the moon landing and there isnt too many complaining about that.

Possibly but I doubt it. Yes it will increase our knowledge of the nature of reality and that's bloody brilliant, but unless we explore the higher practical reality and actually get out there and spread ourselves beyond this island earth, that knowledge will die with us. So the moon landing that showed it could be done 40 years ago must be built on.

I watched them leaving for the last time when I was a kid and we've not returned and ATM I cant see us going back in my lifetime.

Seifer

Novella wrote: »

Today, I got stuck in an elevator. I was going to the car park under my apartment block and the door jammed so I couldn't get out. I was stuck in there for about two hours and while I was waiting for someone to come who could open the door, a guy, a complete stranger, sat on the floor on the other side and talked to me.

Did it work?

yoshytoshy

Wibbs wrote: »

I watched them leaving for the last time when I was a kid and we've not returned and ATM I cant see us going back in my lifetime.

I thought obama wants to go to mars ?

opinion guy

Mmcd wrote: »

Well the results could be of more benefit than the moon landing and there isnt too many complaining about that.

Michaelrsh wrote: »

O finding out what cause everything to have mass is soooo important to humanity that we'll spend billions of tax payers money to find it.

Ah this old chestnut.


Well first off this:

Michaelrsh wrote: »

Well actually they found large quantities of helium-3 on the moon that could help fuel nuclear fusion (when its invented) in the future which could in turn help solve humanity's energy shortages. There isn't much of this particular chemical on Earth though and people would have to mine on the moon in order to effectively sustain nuclear fusion.

I fail to see, however, how finding dark matter or finding the Higg's particle would benefit humanity at all. It's only pure knowledge and comparable to stamp collecting in my opinion.

I mostly think along these lines. I think when you are dealing with limited resources, as we are, you have to priortise. There are far too many real world problems needed solving with those same resources. It almost seems immoral to me to spend SOOOO much money on something that doens't have practical applications within a realiseable timescale. I do think space research is money well spent however - cause its practical.

Wibbs wrote: »

I watched them leaving for the last time when I was a kid and we've not returned and ATM I cant see us going back in my lifetime.

Old man Wibbsy.....:p

mysons

Shop assistants that don't throw the change on the counter after you had them the money and then say NEXT.
People that do say hello or good morning to each other and people that have a smile on their face as if to say FCUK the world I,m happy.

Wibbs

OK my last post was a bit OT, so things that give me hope in humanity and tied into the last vid for continuity reasons....

Horribly clever, focused and trained to within an inch of their lives blokes, buzz cut hairstyles and very straight laced, doing good science, in an incredibly dangerous environment, while acting like a pair of bloody loo laas. I love when one goes I like to skip and the other guy all macho goes "not me boy" Check out the vid where another crew are driving the moon buggy for the first time and one of them starts egging on the other guy to try stepping the back out on the turns. Class

Humans. Not bad for a bunch of monkeys who got lucky.

Michaelrsh

opinion guy wrote: »

I mostly think along these lines. I think when you are dealing with limited resources, as we are, you have to priortise. There are far too many real world problems needed solving with those same resources. It almost seems immoral to me to spend SOOOO much money on something that doens't have practical applications within a realiseable timescale. I do think space research is money well spent however - cause its practical.

Let's take mine on the moon for resources such as helium-3. The value of the helium-3 in term of how it can be used for future nuclear fusion reactors could well surpass the cost of sending miners to and from the moon in the future. This would be practical space exploration. In fact this is not actually science fiction. The development of nuclear fusion reactor is probably 30 years away (scientists are in the process of developing it). Watch the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2xChmfLlMo

part 2 here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eem7hDeREsY&feature=related

opinion guy

Michaelrsh wrote: »

Let's take mine on the moon for resources such as helium-3. The value of the helium-3 in term of how it can be used for future nuclear fusion reactors could well surpass the cost of sending miners to and from the moon in the future. This would be practical space exploration. In fact this is not actually science fiction. The development of nuclear fusion reactor is probably 30 years away (scientists are in the process of developing it). Watch the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2xChmfLlMo

part 2 here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eem7hDeREsY&feature=related

Have to say Michaelrsh, i was referrring to your comments on the CERN stuff. I don't really know anything about the Helium3 business!

Duggy747

Face it, we'd be doomed if it wasn't for the cogs in the overall machine like the scientists and astronauts mentioned.

jill_valentine

A customer thanked me, and I really believed she was grateful. It happens very rarely, and it damn near made my day.

A young girl in a dodgy tracksuit with a buggy told some half-witted loudmouth on the Luas - very politely but firmly - not to be such a racist tool because she didn't want kids growing up having to listen to that kind of bullsh*t. I felt both guilty for misjudging her so severely and well-impressed.

Michaelrsh

opinion guy wrote: »

Have to say Michaelrsh, i was referrring to your comments on the CERN stuff. I don't really know anything about the Helium3 business!

OK, but I just noted an air of sarcasm when you said;

I do think space research is money well spent however - cause its practical.

--LOS--

Things that give hope for the human race......

cryogenic preservation

.....yes.

0verblood

Atheists.

opinion guy

Michaelrsh wrote: »

OK, but I just noted an air of sarcasm when you said;

Oh no no no!!!! I was serious about that!!! I've even been to Cape Canaveral!


Ninja edit: Oh no!!! When I am being sarcastic people aren't getting it and when I'm not people think I am !!!! ARGHGGHHGGH

Reganio 2

Seifer wrote: »

Did it work?

You really have to admire that kind of bravery, she could have been an absoloute munter. That's respect, that guy gives me hope for the human race.

Poor Uncle Tom

biko wrote: »

If you/someone drops something and someone else bothers to bend down and pick it up.

Like soap, in a shower, in a prison, say....:D

Son Of A Vidic

Nothing particularly gives me hope! We are speeding towards mastery of stupidity at an incredible speed. Kids now speak in text and spell in text, with their ability to read or write diminishing. School exams and degrees are being dumbed down, to cater for a generation with the attention span of a Goldfish. We will always however, excel at mastering amazing new ways to annihilate our fellow humans. The US military has a generation of 'warriors' reared on First Person Shooters, who seem to think taking out civilians in Iraq is like one big COD2 Modern Warfare add on. Human life has become worthless, it's like one fcuking voyeur party. Some poor soul jumps of a bridge or of a roof and some souless cnut has the video phone out and uploads it in an hour.
Yip that's it, I've searched my brain and nothing is jumping out at me - were fcuked.

Mmcd

medicman2009 wrote: »

Nothing particularly gives me hope! We are speeding towards mastery of stupidity at an incredible speed. Kids now speak in text and spell in text, with their ability to read or write diminishing. School exams and degrees are being dumbed down, to cater for a generation with the attention span of a Goldfish. We will always however, excel at mastering amazing new ways to annihilate our fellow humans. The US military has a generation of 'warriors' reared on First Person Shooters, who seem to think taking out civilians in Iraq is like one big COD2 Modern Warfare add on. Human life has become worthless, it's like one fcuking voyeur party. Some poor soul jumps of a bridge or of a roof and some souless cnut has the video phone out and uploads it in an hour.
Yip that's it, I've searched my brain and nothing is jumping out at me - were fcuked.

At least we have optimism anyway!

Wibbs

medicman2009 wrote: »

Nothing particularly gives me hope! We are speeding towards mastery of stupidity at an incredible speed. Kids now speak in text and spell in text, with their ability to read or write diminishing. School exams and degrees are being dumbed down, to cater for a generation with the attention span of a Goldfish. We will always however, excel at mastering amazing new ways to annihilate our fellow humans. The US military has a generation of 'warriors' reared on First Person Shooters, who seem to think taking out civilians in Iraq is like one big COD2 Modern Warfare add on. Human life has become worthless, it's like one fcuking voyeur party. Some poor soul jumps of a bridge or of a roof and some souless cnut has the video phone out and uploads it in an hour.
Yip that's it, I've searched my brain and nothing is jumping out at me - were fcuked.

Ancient Greek commentators were saying much the same. "the kids these days, lawlessness increasing, more aggresion, was better in my day/the past etc etc" Little actually changes. Which makes me neutral on the hope front Though throughout history there is usually a group of people, often unnoticed that change things. For good and bad.